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Talking to My Machines: ChatGPT Realtime Voice over Tailscale

Published Sep 3, 2026engineeringGenerative AI

[STUB — companion to "Dotfiles for AI". Outline only.]

Outline

  • What it is: driving agents on remote machines by voice, from a phone, over the tailnet
  • The bridge: how ChatGPT realtime voice reaches a session on a Mac or VPS
  • What lives in dotfiles: the config that makes a fresh machine voice-reachable
  • Latency, interruptions, and what voice is actually good for (steering, not typing)
  • Safety: what an agent may and may not do on a voice instruction
  • What I'd change next